[400], Rates of interreligious marriage vary widely: In the United States, it is just under 50percent,[401] in the United Kingdom, around 53percent; in France; around 30percent,[402] and in Australia and Mexico, as low as 10percent. [50] According to the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Christianity (1.38%) is one of the six fastest-growing religions in the world, with high birth rates and conversions in the global South were being cited as the major reasons of the Christian population growth. [448] (See the geographic distribution of atheism. [297] According to the BBC, a comprehensive American study concluded in 2009 that the number of Muslims worldwide stood at about 23% of the world's population with 60% of the world's Muslims living in Asia. While a quarter of Muslims are switching out of Islam, most are not becoming Christians. [24] According to a study published in 2011 by Pew Research, what little information is available may suggests that religious conversion has no net impact on the Muslim population, as the number of people who convert to Islam is roughly similar to those who leave Islam. The Druzites reside primarily in Syria, Lebanon, Israel and Jordan. The report also shows that the fall in the birth rate of Muslims slowed down the growth rate from 1990 to 2010. Shortly after al-Qaida terrorists attacked the Twin Towers and the Pentagon, many Muslims, as well as other Arab . High fertility is a major driver of projected Muslim population growth around the world and in particular regions. [342] Pew study also reveals that Muslims are younger than other Europeans. Besides, Christianity has grown enormously in Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, and the Pacific. The number of adherents of the Chinese traditional religion is difficult to count, because of:[45], Chinese rarely use the term "religion" for their popular religious practices, and they also do not utilize a vocabulary that they "believe in" gods or truths. The goal is to secure virginal brides rather than to seek new converts to Islam. [303][304] According to the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the World Christian Database as of 2007 has Islam as the fastest-growing religion in the world. [236] According to Public Affairs Alliance of Iranian Americans, the number of Iranian Americans Muslims decreased from 42% in 2008 to 31% in 2012 according to a telephone survey around the Los Angeles region. [38], As of around 2020, there were about 8 million Bah's in the world. "[453], A similar pattern has been found in other countries such as Australia, Canada, and Mexico. It also stated that "the number of people who embrace Islam and the number of those who leave Islam are roughly equal. [52] In 2010, 26% of the world's Christians lived in Europe, followed by 24.4% in Latin America and the Caribbean, 23.8% in Sub-Saharan Africa, 13.2% in Asia and the Pacific, 12.3% in North America, and 1% in the Middle East and North Africa. From the late 1920s to the late 1980s the religion was harassed and banned in the Soviet-led Eastern Bloc,[427][428][429] and then again from the 1970s into the 1990s across some countries in sub-Saharan Africa. It is a subsidiary of The Pew Charitable Trusts. [93] Professor Aris Ananta reported in 2008 that "anecdotal evidence suggests that more Buddhist Chinese have become Christians as they increased their standards of education, because Christianity, unlike Buddhism, is often associated with 'modernity' and Western education", although there are no stats to support this. What the data says about gun deaths in the U.S. [408] Since 2005, the world's Jewish population has been growing modestly at a rate of around 0.78% (in 2013). Levy, Robert I. Mesocosm: Hinduism and the Organization of a Traditional Newar City in Nepal. Muslims that seek to renounce Islam face legal obstacles, societal push-back, and harsh penalties. [461] [393] As a result of the efforts by these and other Jewish groups over the past 25 years, there has been a trend (known as the Baal teshuva movement) for secular Jews to become more religiously observant, though the demographic implications of the trend are unknown. [349] The prospect of a homogenous Muslim community per se, or a Muslim majority in Europe is however out of the question. Hinduism is the largest religion in the countries of India, Nepal, and Mauritius. From 2000-2010, only a total of 135 out of 686 applications by Muslims seeking . [340] According to a religious forecast for 2050 by Pew Research Center conversion does not add significantly to the growth of the Muslim population in Europe,[343] according to the same study the net loss is (60,000) due to religious switching. [384] In a 2008 conference on religion at Yale University's The MacMillan Center Initiative on Religion, Politics, and Society which hosted a speech from Hugh Kennedy, he stated forced conversions played little part in the history of the spread of the faith. One-fifth of the U.S. public and a third of adults under 30 are religiously unaffiliated today, the highest percentages ever in Pew Research Center polling. [339][341][342] Between 2010 and 2015 the Muslim fertility rate in Europe was (2.1). In the aftermath of the Cold War, one could say that Europe needed a new archetypal enemy, and research shows that Muslim immigrants gradually took on that status. 2. [59] According to a 2017 Pew Research Center survey, between 2010 and 2015 "an estimated 223 million babies were born to Christian mothers and roughly 107 million Christians died, meaning that the natural increase in the Christian population i.e., the number of births minus the number of deaths was 116 million over this period". [245] While according to the book The Oxford Handbook of Religious Conversion, which written by professor of the Christian mission, Charles E. Farhadian, and professor of psychology, Lewis Rambo, in mid-2005 approximately 15.5million converted to Christianity from another religion, while approximately 11.7million left Christianity, most of them becoming irreligious, resulting in a net gain of 3.8 million. See also "Merely speaking of a 'Muslim community in France' can be misleading and inaccurate: like every immigrant population, Muslims in France exhibit strong cleavages based on the country of their origin, their social background, political orientation and ideology, and the, Stark, Rodney. [83], The US Department of State estimated in 2005 that Protestants in Vietnam may have grown by 600% over the previous 10 years. What the data says about gun deaths in the U.S. The Sensitive Stuff "The majority of ex-Muslims I interviewed said they were profoundly lonely and isolated, and they related. "A missiological postscript", in McLeod and Ustorf (eds). Minorities make up just 3.6 percent of Pakistan's 220 million people and often are the target of discrimination.. Islam will grow faster than any other religion over the next 40 years. [268], The 2001 American Religious Identification Survey (ARIS) survey estimated that between 1990 and 2001 the number of self-identifying deists grew from 6,000 to 49,000, representing about 0.02% of the US population at the time.[269]. [406], In 1939, the core Jewish population reached its historical peak of 17 million (0.8% of the global population). [38] in 2018 a new data from the Gordon Theological Seminary shows that, for the first time ever, more number of Christians live in Africa than on any other single continent:[58] "The results show Africa on top with 631 million Christian residents, Latin America in 2nd place with 601 million Christians, and Europe in 3rd place with 571 million Christians". [445] In addition, there are examples where the adherents have their highest density among minorities in societies who face their own challenges. Atheism Among Muslims is "Spreading Like Wildfire" Atheism among Muslim populations was once unthinkable. [511] The Zoroastrian Representative of the Kurdistan Regional Government in Iraq has said that as many as 14,000 people in Iraqi Kurdistan have converted to Zoroastrianism recently, with community leaders repeating this and speculating that even more Zoroastrians in the region are practicing their faith secretly. According to Justin Vasse the fertility rate of Muslim immigrants declines with integration. According to the World Christian Encyclopedia, between 1965 and 1985 about 2.5million Indonesians converted from Islam to Christianity. Ari Paltiel, Michel Sepulchre, Irene Kornilenko, Martin Maldonado: sfn error: no target: CITEREFRabbani1987 (, sfn error: no target: CITEREFAffolter2005 (, sfn error: no target: CITEREFHassal2022 (, sfn error: no target: CITEREFPew_Global_Religious_Landscape2012 (, The United States does not measure religion during its censuses. Religious conversions havent had a large impact on the size of the U.S. Muslim population, largely because about as many Americans convert to Islam as leave the faith. [344], The Pew Research Center notes that "the data that we have isn't pointing in the direction of 'Eurabia' at all",[345] and predicts that the percentage of Muslims is estimated to rise to 8% in 2030, due to immigration and above-average birth rates. Because of the Holocaust, the number had been reduced to 11 million by the end of 1945. [29], Buddhism is based on the teachings of Siddhartha Gautama, commonly known as the Buddha, who was born in modern day Nepal and lived and taught in India in the 5th century BC. [359] By 2050 Asia will be home to (52.8%) of the world's Muslims, and about (24.3%) of the world's Muslims will live in Sub Saharan Africa, (20%) the Middle East and North Africa, and 2% in Europe. [446][447], In terms of absolute numbers, irreligion appears to be increasing (along with secularization generally). Look at who is 'going forth and multiplying', FAQ from Adherents.com describing why it is difficult to measure the fastest-growing religion, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Growth_of_religion&oldid=1141030901, This page was last edited on 23 February 2023, at 00:39. Christianity is expected to lose a net of 66 million adherents mostly to religiously unaffiliated, while religiously unaffiliated are expected to gain 61 million adherents. Ever year, 6 million Muslims convert to Christianity. At the end of 2017, the average age of the Israeli Druze was 27.9. . That means 3 of every 4 people leaving Islam go to something other than Christianity. Some of the tribes decided that as their loyalty to Islam had been primarily to Muhammad himself, his death . Changement de prnom et stratgies identitaires, entre culture d'origine et migration [Shklzen or Giannis? According to the 2011 Census of India, there are 57,264 Parsis in India. Though exact numbers are difficult to tally, observers estimate that as many as 20,000 Americans convert to Islam annually. 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[335] Many Muslims who leave Islam face social rejection or imprisonment and sometimes murder or other penalties. "[411], The largest proportions of the total world Bah' population[412] were found in sub-Saharan Africa (29.9%) and South Asia (26.8%), followed by Southeast Asia (12.7%) and Latin America (12.2%). For example, federal legislation prohibits and criminalizes non-Muslims for preaching or converting Muslims into their religion, even though the reverse is allowed. [308] According to a report by CNN, "Islam has drawn converts from all walks of life, most notably African-Americans". [451][452] According to Anne Elizabeth Wynn of The Statesman, "The two most recent American Religious Identification Surveys declare Wicca, one form of paganism, as the fastest growing spiritual identification in America". by Daniel. [38] According to scholar Mark Juergensmeyer of University of California, Berkeley, the global Christian population increased at an average annual rate of 2.3%, while Roman Catholicism is growing by 1.3% annually, Protestantism is growing by 3.3% annually, and Evangelicalism and Pentecostalism is growing by 7% annually. [388], According to the Pew Research Center published on 2010, religious conversion may have little impact on the Jewish population between 2010 and 2050; Jews are expected to lose 0.3 million adherents, between 2010 and 2050. [331] Europe's Muslim population also has higher fertility (2.1) than other religious groups in the region, well above the regional average (1.6). Since the year 2000, the Israeli Druze community has witnessed a significant decrease in fertility-rate and a significant increase in life expectancy. [465] Outside of India, the largest Sikh communities are in the core Anglosphere, with 771,790 in Canada (2.1% Sikh),[466][467] 472,498 in the United States (0.1% Sikh),[470] 432,429 in the United Kingdom (0.7% Sikh),[471][472][473] 210,397 in Australia (0.8% Sikh),[474][475] and 40,908 in New Zealand (0.9% Sikh).